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^I really like that one Keishiro Smile

Resurrecting the Krautrock Space? Why indeed. There's loads of fun to be had in the bushes with music like this:

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

The one glaring gap in my collection has just been filled, and very nicely too - I'm looking forward to Vol. 2 arriving as I had to order the CDs separately from different sellers Thumbs Up

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First of all - very nice haul. Quite a few faves of mine included in your cd pile

2dogs wrote:

The one glaring gap in my collection has just been filled, and very nicely too - I'm looking forward to Vol. 2 arriving as I had to order the CDs separately from different sellers Thumbs Up

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Vol 2? Are you sure you're not referencing the Body Love soundtrack?

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

I know what you mean with Body Love 2 but some of the copies of X available have been as separate CDs with the first four tracks on Vol 1 and the remaining two tracks on Vol 2.

2dogs wrote:

I know what you mean with Body Love 2 but some of the copies of X available have been as separate CDs with the first four tracks on Vol 1 and the remaining two tracks on Vol 2.

I had no idea. I own an old beat down double LP of X, which in recent years finally has received the love it deserves. I may just have overdosed on the "coffee trilogy" (Blackdance, Picture Music, Timewind) and in the process neglecting quite a few gems of his. I still think Blackdance and Picture Music are his best albums (also happens to be his most Krautrock sounding releases imo), but then again you really can't go wrong with 70s Klaus.

Edited by Guldbamsen - June 20 2016 at 02:58

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

Electric Orange appear regularly on Krautrock World, along with groups like Litmus, First Band From Outer Space, Sula Bassana and Cosmic Ground - all mixed in with classic krautrock and other prog rock old and new. We have a "Pure" internet radio which looks like a regular radio but the only stations it lists are the ones you've chosen from their web site Big smile

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It's a very good experimental album, but it's VERY scary, never listen on dark.

moshkito wrote:

Guldbamsen wrote:

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I had no idea. I own an old beat down double LP of X, which in recent years finally has received the love it deserves. I may just have overdosed on the "coffee trilogy" (Blackdance, Picture Music, Timewind) and in the process neglecting quite a few gems of his. I still think Blackdance and Picture Music are his best albums (also happens to be his most Krautrock sounding releases imo), but then again you really can't go wrong with 70s Klaus.

I wonder if so much of the confusion, came from the special editions, that had alternative versions of a lot of stuff with different names on them, and in some cases, on CD reissues, some of these things, ended up being released, with them, and it made for the CD's much more valuable than the LP's in my book. But I'm not sure that Klaus' extra stuff goes all the way back to CYBORG and BLACKDANCE or TIMEWIND days, though, but it sure is possible, though I think many people might find it boring, and not as interesting as later stuff.

The CD I have of Timewind contains bonus tracks from the same time but Cyborg comes with a live track from 1977 which someone other than Klaus thought was a nice ending after the previously harsh sounds. I like Cyborg as it was though, it's wonderfully alien and shows just how brilliant Klaus was at making interesting music with what little equipment he had at his disposal.

X Vol 2 (i.e. the original disc 2 with tracks 5 & 6) arrived and was very nice on first listen, atmospheric and ambient with orchestral sounds reminiscent of the start of Irrlicht. I thought at one point it included a guest appearance by Conrad Schnitzler but it turned out to be someone a little way down the street cutting wood with a power saw Wink

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Shameless plug for Herbert F Bairy's masterpiece 'Traumspiel' as it finally has been uploaded to JooToob:

One of the many cases of albums being a couple of years late to the party. Had this been released in 71 my guess is that most Krautrock aficionados would be talking about it today.

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

Another really good gem: